Writing the Silences

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26244-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 136 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 190 g

Reihe: New California Poetry

The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore’s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore’s place in literary history—he is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poets—but also his reemergence into today’s literary world after an important career as a filmmaker and producer in public radio and television. Writing the Silences reflects Moore’s commitment to freedom of form, his interest in language itself, and his dedication to issues of social justice and ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Richard O.

Hillman, Brenda

Ebenkamp, Paul

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hillman, Brenda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Photographs follow page

Preface Brenda Hillman

Acknowledgments

[Therefore, set forth over the black river]

Shadow and Light

Itinerary

By the Lake

Utensils

Driving to Fort Bragg

Dog in the Forest

History

Columbia 1960

Ten Philosophical Asides

Marginalia: Whitehead

Quotations

Analects

from d{ens}e{ens}l{ens}e{ens}t{ens}e

“Come Live with Me”

:{ems}It{ems}:

from Writing the Silences

“Come Sunday”

Birthright

Notebook

This Morning

Aftershock

Visiting Hours

The Parachutist’s Annunciation

Holding On

. a divertimento.

Footnotes

A Funeral of Memory

The Winter Garden

A Treasury of Darkness

Introit

Over the Shoulder

Meanwhile

Early Poems

from A History Primer

Seascape

from September Elegy

from At Caesar’s Gate

A Reminiscence

Birthday View Opening on a Garden

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Richard O. Moore, now 90, is a poet, filmmaker, and seminal figure in public radio and television. Moore belonged to the San Francisco Renaissance literary circle of Kenneth Rexroth in the 1940s and 1950s, which was a precursor to the Beat poetry movement. Writing the Silences is his second book. Moore is the 2010 recipient of the Milley Award for Achievement in the Literary Arts. Brenda Hillman is an award-winning poet who has published eight books of poems, most recently Practical Water. Her collection Loose Sugar was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997. She is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College. Paul Ebenkamp holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary's College and works as a research assistant and editor.